Help me identify the artist please.

[admin_vyom]

I have a ceramic bowl signed by E. Owen( I guessed), but I don't find any info on the artist and bowl. Please help.

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

 

[maxine*j]

This might help others identify the signature, but there are so many potters out there that identifying studio pottery is often impossible:

[maeday76]

@admin_vyom 

A few questions:

1. Where in the country are you/was this found?

2. Does it seem to be a double layer piece? The ruffled edge looks to have spaces in between the highest points of the curves. 

3. Could you please post a high definition image of the back including the whole signature? & Also one of the decorative edge around the inner margin of the bowl ? 

I have a few ideas, but these answers will be very helpful for weeding out incorrect artists. 

Thanks and I hope I can help! 

Mae

[admin_vyom]

Thanks @maeday76 for the reply. Here are answers

1. The bowl is found in Florida.

2.It looks like double layered piece. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 let me know if you need any more pics. Once again thanks for the reply.

admin_vyom

[maeday76 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the additional pictures. 

I think this was done any time between the 1970s and today, by someone who is a huge fan of George Ohr, or who studied in Biloxi/Ocean Springs Mississippi, -- both towns are artist and potters enclaves that have kept the spirit of the many local artists who started gathering there since before the 1900s. 

Any fan or Ohr would scoff at the idea that this is a piece of his work, but that signature got me really excited for a moment thinking that maybe he had a "normal tableware" period in his career. And that maybe there were more variations on his signature. Sadly, neither of those things are true. (Although he did have a brief foray into moulded mugs, that's the closest his work came to being "normal." His vases often didn't hold water, he was about pushing aesthetic boundaries.)

The E in the signature is perfectly Ohr, as are the flourishes. The lack of G is not Ohr, neither are the deftness of the writing or the letters finishing the last name. 

Here I've gathered a few examples of his signature on pots and a quick piece that features the fluted ruffles that he regularly included in his work. 

 

 

 

 

 

I feel like the artist was using their own signature as an homage to "the mad potter of Biloxi." 

I wish I had some more solid news, but I'm just going to suggest that the first letter of the last name we're all reading as an O, may actually be an M, because the stroke starts outside at the upper left, not a common move for a cursive capital O.